Dude, come on. Let's be adults about this. That's not a speculation or rumor video. It's about hard numbers.
YouTube is the largest streaming platform and the second largest website in terms of traffic. It has a diverse base of regular users from across the globe, and it is a very good gauge of whether people actually give a shit about a particular show or franchise.
Let's examine another web-based series, which is currently in the middle of a season: The Boys.
If you go to Google Trends, it seems that quite a bit more people are currently running searches about The Boys than Lower Decks, which is in the middle of releasing its first season's episodes.
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Here's a video clip video from the second season of The Boys that was posted on Amazon Prime Video's UK channel yesterday. This is not the main Prime Video channel, but a secondary regional one that has less than half the number of subscribers that CBS All Access's YouTube channel has.
It's got nearly 70k hits in less than 24 hours. If you go to The Boys' videos on
Amazon Prime Video's main YouTube channel, you'll see that all videos on The Boys-related topics, be they behind the scenes stuff, season promos, character breakdowns or clips from the show, have between a few hundred thousand and a couple of million views. That's because, unlike any of the current incarnations of Star Trek, The Boys is a show that people actually like and talk about with other fans online, so they go out actively searching for videos on the platform where it's easiest to find them.
There's no evidence whatsoever that anybody gives a shit about the Star Trek franchise at present besides the very small fanbase that NuTrek has cultivated since Discovery premiered. Videos that are critical of the franchise are likely to get ten times as many hits as videos about the shows that are currently in production.
That's not spin. It's just reality.